denyerec

You can specify to display recommended books, or books without recommendations, or both, perhaps you could use that to customise the output ?
Also, to “move books up the list” you can EDIT them, and select the “Update Timestamp” option, which will promote them to the top…
If you have any other thoughts, feel free to mail me.
Regards,
Denyerec

amazon.ca has also been brought to my attention… ??
Keep your eyes open, there will be a 1.1 release shortly to accomodate (hopefully) everyone.

(I did discover “Amazon.co.jp” in english, but its format is still rather alien and full of UniCode. Gah! I’m working on something, updates will be reflected on my blog post)

I knew there had to be at least one more amazon site… ??
I tried to find a way to contact you outside of the WP forum to continue discussion there instead of cluttering the thread, but no joy.
Ok, I have had a very quick look at the amazon.jp site and the initial diagnosis is not good. The main problem is that many Japanese-only items don’t list on the .co.uk or .com databases (I think the japanese venture is a separate beast). This wouldn’t be too much of a hassle if I actually spoke Japanese, but I do not.
This sadly makes parsing the unicode in the amazon.co.jp links impossible for me, so I am unable to make the system extract the item data.
However, there is light at the end of said tunnel…
What I *can* do for you is modify the system to use the .co.jp extension, and to generate .co.jp associate links and, even, extract the items image. You will then have to manually enter the item title, author and type. (As extracting them from the hopeless mess that is the amazon.co.jp website is mission:Impossible for an english speaker such as myself.)
If this would help, let me know and I’ll adjust the code for you.
Kind regards,
Denyerec

Lemme know when you’ve got it working Chuckg, and also if you’ve got any thoughts for alterations or improvements. I don’t think I’v emade full use of the <A> tag in the script, missing out the title attribute, so I might go back and fiddle if anyone thinks it’s worthwhile.

Good call on the PHP tags. Another alteration to the README required ??
If you do not enter an associate ID, my ID is *NOT* inserted by default. I did this because I wasn’t sure how people would feel about semi-covertly shouldering my way into their Amazon clickthroughs. Thinking about it, I will add my associate ID to the readme and code comment, just in case people are overcome with charitable notions ??
(My .co.uk associate ID is denyersphotog-21 by the way :))
My menu.txt amendment was based on the default WP 1.0.1 menu textfile, which is why you’ve suffered a little overwriting. The menu.txt file is simple to modify however, and is well commented. I will make amendments to the readme to alert people of this.
Cheers for the feedback,
Denyerec

Ahhh yes, right you are. Kitta said the same thing and I think what’s happened is I’ve saved the changes locally but not in my “release” folder. Cheers for the heads up, I’ll fix it immediately.
Regards,
Denyerec

The good old “setcookie() canot run, headers have already been sent out” message, which is what you’re destined to receive if content has been transmitted prior to a header request.

Gallery.php is my own creation yes, I started that as my first ever PHP experiment before Christmas. Then I wrote my own news script, but decided I wanted more sophistication so I checked out WP and manhandled the template to conform to the look and feel of the gallery. They both run from the same CSS sheet now, which is coded in PHP allowing me to do some pretty nifty things. (Such as apply a PHP based greyscale filter to make the site monochrome in an instant. You might ask why, this would explain part of the motivation for that ??
Right now the backend is a little messy, the code clearly becomes more sophisticated as you read through, as I started out following basic W3 tutorials and slowly got the hang of it. It’s due for an overhaul as soon as possible, I want to get it watertight and class-based ready for release to the world, and possbly for PHP5.

Well, I guess my hack will be for the people who aren’t amazon associates, or are too lazy to join the scheme anyway ??
I can’t see it being too troublesome altering the URL’s the hack generates, in fact I could even go so far as to store the associate ID in the database somewhere and generate associate-based URL’s if it’s present, and non-associate URLs if it’s not…
I have someone “beta testing” my script for me as I type, as soon as I get a green light I’ll bundle it up and pop a link on here for people to brave.
Oh and thanks for the ego fluffling Jeremiah, it’s always nice to know people appreciate the photographs!

/me slaps head
Ok, I’m done ??

/me forgot to slap head

Heh
You guys are fast.
As soon as I posted, I flushed and refreshed and Bingo.
Cheers guys for the almost eerily fast response. Kudos!

No associate ID required…
I had no idea Amazon had an associate’s system, so didn’t code to account for it.
It wouldn’t be difficult to insert the associate ID into the code though, but I would be unable to test for it.
Do you get a comission from click-throughs if the associate ID is used?
Regards,
Denyerec

I am *nearly* finished with a WP media collating widget. Should be done within 24 hrs.
It’ll sit in the admin section of WP and on the toolbar once I’ve shoe-horned it in.
Enter ISBN/ASIN and *pop*, data and image link retrieved from Amazon by parsing their HTML output. This is then stored in a DB table. (Creation/Installation of relevant files is what I’m working on at the moment.) No associate ID’s required if you don’t have one, if you do, feel free hack that support in yourself. I didn’t know about the associate ID thing before I started coding, so d’oh.
As for output, I don’t know what is par for the course so I’ll use a couple of “template style” calls to dump info to the user like most of the existing WP functions.
So far it’ll print the most recent X books in your list, based on the parameter passed to the output function, though I may extend it to allow for users to choose what they display with a little more finesse.
Oh, it also handles all EBooks, Music and DVD’s, so you can display “What I’m Reading”, “What I’m Listening to” and “What I just Watched” if you want.
It does not make tea.
Demo will be available on my site ASAP, please get back to me with ideas/suggestions.
Regards,
Denyerec
Denyerec.co.uk